There are currently only six locations in Afghanistan for women and girls to take shelter from this physical and sexual abuse experienced by family members, more specifically the men.
Over 87 percent of women in Afghanistan are abused. Many of these battered women have suffered years of abuse after being forced into marriage at a young age. Some even tried to commit suicide before escaping to one of these shelters.
Recently, The Huffington Post investigated into the rise of domestic violence in Afghanistan and posted the video below.
One of the shelter workers said, “It’s not just shelter. Its a woman specific space, an activity that is not in the home. Typically that places women at risk of being accused of prostitution, being accused of immoral behavior…”
The president of Afghanistan recently signed a ground breaking decree criminalizing violence against women. How much it will affect these women is something only time will tell.
Beauty UnSilenced 